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CANNES (Bloomberg) — Cannes, the world's most prestigious film festival, is drawing investment by hedge funds and private-equity companies in motion-picture financing, production and distribution.Film production companies said the money is transformi...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — China will let Carlyle Group, a Washington DC-based buyout firm, buy a 19.9 percent stake in China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., paving way for the insurer's first share sale.Carlyle and Newark, New Jersey-based Prudential Fi...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones/AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission prevailed in the first case to go to trial involving the fraudulent use of a product called finite insurance, announcing on Friday that a federal jury found a former Brightpoint Inc. ...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Next Saturday, 157 Bermuda-based candidates will take a gruelling examination that will help them on the long road to becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
They will be among nearly 100,000 candidates world-wide taking level one, two or three...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Standard & Poor's Rating Services has raised the financial strength rating of Bermuda-based Tokio Millennium Re Limited to AA from AA-.
Meanwhile, A.M. Best has affirmed Tokio's financial strength rating of A+ (superior) and the issuer credit rating ...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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Q: I'm not sure what to make of Alcoa Inc. Should I keep its shares in my portfolio? — K.G., via the internet. The world's largest aluminium producer is expected to turn in record revenues for the next couple of years.
Global demand for aluminium is ...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index reversed early losses to end flat before a long weekend break, as gains in miners on the back of rallying metal prices offset gloom in oil shares. The FTSE 100 closed up 5.1 points, or 0.08 percent at 6,570.5, f...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose in quiet session as investors adjusted positions ahead of a long holiday weekend and tried to determine whether a lacklustre week presaged a departure from Wall Street's months-long run-up or merely a temporary pause.
Stoc...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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It used to be called "making a statement". Watch anyone today, anywhere, any time. We all send subtle (and sometimes not subtle) signals about what we stand for, what we want, who we think we are, and where we'd like to be seen in our societal strata...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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CHINA is trying to slow its breakneck pace of economic growth. The US could use a little of what China has too much of. Are the two countries working at cross purposes?
The notion of a global growth cycle, with countries taking their cues from the US...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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